The centre accommodates up to 50 Macs – including 29 dual-processor Power Mac G4s – and three Mac editing-suites, all using Apple’s Final Cut Pro video-editing software. Four Xserves also run the building's network.

Cullen joked: "PC users don’t even realise they're on a Mac network."

He added: "The Mac has incredible applications such as iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto, which for education is fantastic. We do family days here. Parents come along with their kids and we send them out with a digital camera.

"They go out snapping on the quayside, then come back, load them and animate them, make up stories, all in minutes. The kids can do something straight away, without waiting for it to render."

Cullen said "There’s a real synergy between Baltic and Apple. We want to do exactly what they want to do - make technology easy and accessible."